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Our first ten publications, Lights! Camera! Action!, Tuba Tunes, Changing Light, Love Songs, Piano Studies Book One, Playing from Scratch, Seven Balletti and Seven Correnti, Two English Folk Songs, Two Canzonas in Trio Sonata Style and Piano Studies Book Two can be ordered via secure PayPal pages. Just click on Add to Cart and follow the online purchasing process.

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Piano Studies Book Two

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Studies to entertain both performer and listener, Piano Studies Book One and Piano Studies Book Two bring technical challenges to the fore within the context of expressive musical composition.

Beginning in C major, Book One journeys through G major (Study II) to B major (Study VI). Book Two begins in F sharp major (Study VII) and concludes in F major (Study XII). The two volumes move progressively through all 12 major keys, exploring a more chromatic palette as the studies reach their conclusion.

A variety of technical challenges are posed along the way. In Book One technical challenges focus on maintaining evenness of figuration in different keys, alternating quaver thirds and single quavers, hand crossing, playing smooth scale passages, pivoting with the thumb and syncopation. Technical challenges in Book Two highlight alternating staccato quavers between hands, sostenuto pedalling, balancing chordal textures, playing smoothly in different five-finger positions, combining chromatic octave and chromatic accompanying passages and contrasting smooth chromatic scales with staccato decoration.